One-day cricket

Limited overs, unlimited players

Feb 25, 2013: From left field, John Stern, editor of the Wisden Cricketer , has a unique idea for an innovation in one-day cricket: an American football-style squad system, wherein sides can name an almost unlimited number of players in their squad and use them

Ashes

The worst Aussie side for 30 years?

Feb 25, 2013: Former England coach Duncan Fletcher, who took England on two Ashes tours to Australia, believes the current Australian team is the worst in 30 years

IPL

10 reasons I hate the IPL aka ‘the America effect’

Feb 25, 2013: By Gregory Uzelac

Better performance through blind panic

Feb 25, 2013: A masterful new Ashes strategy, based on a breakthrough in sports motivation psychology, revealed

Ashes 2010-11

Free beer for every Aussie if Ashes are won

Feb 25, 2013: History imbues the Ashes with the sort of significance that goes beyond words

Ashes

Why Australia can win the Ashes 5-0 -- Part 3

Feb 25, 2013: From TS Trudgian, Canada

Ashes

Judgement day for Ponting

Feb 25, 2013: In the latest edition of Spin , the Guardian’s Andy Bull says despite all his achievements, Ricky Ponting’s reputation as a captain rests on the result of the upcoming Ashes series.

Lara's still got it

Feb 25, 2013: The Twenty20 buzz is with us at the Harare Sports club

Ashes

The Kookaburra challenge

Feb 25, 2013: England should not worry about bowling with the Kookaburra ball in Australia, says Vic Marks

Speed thrills at dawn

Feb 25, 2013: The next Pakistan-South Africa Test is four days away but it’s already causing a few headaches

Indian cricket

Kumble can make a difference

Feb 25, 2013: You only need to look at the lucrative options Anil Kumble turned down in order to get into the world of sports administration, to realise what a stunning decision he has made, says Suresh Menon in dreamcricket.com .

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe cricket reaches out to township kids

Feb 25, 2013: The sight of stands full of school children during both domestic and international cricket matches is not new to Zimbabwe, but their presence could be even more notable as children from Highfields, Chitungwiza and Mabvuku townships will not only be

Ashes

Australia’s 17: a clever move or pure confusion?

Feb 25, 2013: In the Age , Peter Roebuck says Australia’s 17-strong squad for the first Ashes Test may seem shambolic at first sight, but is actually a sound strategic move and shows the selectors won’t be pressurised by marketers into showing their hand early.

Ashes

The Ashes goes beyond cricket

Feb 25, 2013: In the Financial Times , Matthew Engel reminisces about how the 1962-63 Ashes series made him infatuated with Australia and says the Ashes is a unique bond between two countries at the uttermost ends of the earth.

Watching cricket in the USA is a scramble

Feb 25, 2013: It was recently reported that a deal between Neo Cricket and Comcast means that cricket will now be available on cable in the USA

Ashes

Why Australia can win the Ashes 5-0 -- Part 2

Feb 25, 2013: From TS Trudgian, Canada

West Indies cricket

West Indies still rely on Chanderpaul

Feb 25, 2013: In the Jamaican Observer , Hartley Anderson laments West Indies’ poor preparation for their tour of Sri Lanka and says Shivnarine Chanderpaul will be the key player in the Test series.

United States of America

The challenge of popularising cricket in the USA

Feb 25, 2013: Tom Melville writes an open letter to Don Lockerbie, the CEO of the USA Cricket Association, on dreamcricket.com , warning him of how difficult it will be to make cricket popular among Americans.

Standing in the rain

Feb 25, 2013: In a hilly suburb of Adelaide, on a morning so still that even the crows must have been sleeping in, Andrew Hilditch decided to catch a bus to the solicitors’ office where he worked

Indian domestic cricket

Pay concerns for domestic cricketers

Feb 25, 2013: At last, the much deferred and overdue fee hike for India's Test Players has finally happened, that too three times its present amount